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Related: About this forumKorean ‘Comfort Women' Photo Exhibit Sabotaged in Japan Photos Posted 27 June 2012 23:41 GMT
Posted 27 June 2012 23:41 GMT
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Lee Yoo Eun
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/06/27/japan-korean-comfort-women-photo-exhibit-sabotaged/
Ahn Se-Hong, a South Korean photographer was harassed leading up to and during his exhibition in Japan, where he displayed pictures of aging Comfort Women,' a term used for Korean women that were drafted as sex slaves by the Japanese during World War II. Ahn disclosed that he is facing threats from Japanese right wing groups, who held protests against the photo exhibition.....
....The South Korean online space erupted with rage and countless users accused Japanese extremist right-wing groups of not only refusing to admit their war crimes, but attempting to sabotage the art exhibition.
Ahns show Layer by Layer: Korean women left behind in China who were comfort women of the Japanese military, shows faces of innocent victims who were dragged into inexplicably horrid situations in their teens or early twenties, now wrinkled and crippled. During Japanese colonization, approximately 50,000 to 200,000 Korean women were kidnapped and forced to leave their homes to become military sex slaves. Less than 70 percent of these women managed to return home.
....The South Korean online space erupted with rage and countless users accused Japanese extremist right-wing groups of not only refusing to admit their war crimes, but attempting to sabotage the art exhibition.
Ahns show Layer by Layer: Korean women left behind in China who were comfort women of the Japanese military, shows faces of innocent victims who were dragged into inexplicably horrid situations in their teens or early twenties, now wrinkled and crippled. During Japanese colonization, approximately 50,000 to 200,000 Korean women were kidnapped and forced to leave their homes to become military sex slaves. Less than 70 percent of these women managed to return home.
This is so sad.
From the same article:
These groups are also gathering signatures for a petition [ko] to remove a monument commemorating Comfort Women in the United States, fueling an old animosity between Japan and South Korea once again.
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Korean ‘Comfort Women' Photo Exhibit Sabotaged in Japan Photos Posted 27 June 2012 23:41 GMT (Original Post)
polly7
Jun 2012
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Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)1. Nikon's actions are reprehensible.
Right wing loonies are bad enough but when a major corporation aids their attempts at shutting down this exhibit that's really beyond the pale.
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)2. This makes me feel sad.
I didn't know anything about these women and now I am curious about this and I want to find more information.
Thanks.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)3. sickening